15+ years of marketing, business strategy, (13 years with Masters)
People management experience
10+ years experience with communications strategy
5+ years experience in a Strategist related work, preferably in a Creative Agency
5+ years experience in Consumer research
Expertise in market research, competitive intelligence, scenario planning, information and data management, quantitative analysis, forecasting and building sales/financial/deal models
Significant cross-functional leadership capabilities in a matrix organization with ability to lead, collaborate various stakeholders (functions, regions, country/clusters) and influence without authority.
Proven success in driving for results, taking ownership with entrepreneurial spirit to get things done
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, in addition to excellent interpersonal and presentation skills, including significant experience presenting complex business cases to senior cross-functional audiences and executive committees, a must
Experience and skilled at framing and guiding strategic problem solving to inform decision-making, leveraging hypotheses generations, secondary data analyses and other analytical tools.
Able to apply these approaches to solving complex and ambiguous problems
Deep CPG business and marketing communications experience
Developer of people, direct management experience
Agency and client side experience preferred